Pro Stock Racing - Sunday, Sunday, Sunday!

When looking back at photos from the good old days, most magazines have a select group of photographers that they choose from. That's fine until the group runs out of new images. When that happens, how do you get to take a look back at the history of racing without repeating yourself? One way is to find people who attended racing events back then. But how many people were actually taking pictures instead of watching the races? And if they were taking pictures, how many kept them after all these years? With the advent of social media, finding never-before-seen images is just a couple of typed words away. Take, for instance, this gathering of fine snapshots that we're certain have never been printed before. How can we be so sure? Because the photographer is not what many would consider a famous photographer. At the time, he was just a guy who went to the track and enjoyed the races. Lucky for us, he took pictures. Even luckier is the fact that he kept them after all these years.

But finding images like this isn't accomplished by making phone calls to people that might have been there. Were it not for the advent of social media, we would have likely never found out about the ones we have here. Again, luck was in our favor, and we stumbled across a Nostalgia Pro Stock Facebook page that gathers everyone with any interest in vintage Pro Stock racing. Now, this page is not limited to just the Mopar contingent; anything related to early Pro Stock racing can be found there, and all it took was for us to ask the guys and gals if they had any images they would like to share. Within minutes, we started getting images that we felt were cool, historically significant, and to top it all off, never before printed.

While racing in the Pro Stock ranks in today's world takes more money than is required to purchase a small village, the guys like Don Carlton, Roy Hill, and the team of Sox & Martin did it during a time when the money was good (if you won), and it was considered simply a way to earn a living.